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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...have little control over who their clients are. If you work for Bain you might be hired by Pfizer to analyze how Viagra might sustain its current level of popularity. If you work for Mitchell Madison you might be assigned to figure out when the best time is to begin marketing a competing product. Short-term effect: Your company either wins or loses, makes money or it doesn't; you get a raise or promotion or you don't. Long-term effect: Nada. Nothing. Zip. Zilch...

Author: By Jal D. Mehta, | Title: Avoiding a Path to Nowhere | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...depths of cynical garage-rock and tortured, pre-millenial angst there climbs a thing of radiant beauty--a wonder of nature so luminous and pure that we can do nothing but raise our tear-filled eyes to the heavens, sigh in complete abandon and carefully begin to shake some serious booty...

Author: By Erin E. Billings, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Coughing Bears: Fracturing the Narrative and Other Misadventures | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

...seems oddly out of place at MIT. One wonders what these primitive-looking woodcuts, portraying simple domestic scenes, are doing in the glass and concrete confines of the List Visual Arts Center. The works, however, which Mansen did while living in New York between 1989 and 1992, subtly begin to show that they are far more contemporary than they first appear, that Mansen has reinvigorated the traditional art of woodcut printing under the 20th-century influences of cinema and collage, and in reaction to changes that have taken place in his first medium, painting...

Author: By John T. Maier, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Domesticity, Modernity | 10/16/1998 | See Source »

Ticket sales are starting much earlier this year. In previous years, sales did not begin until two or three weeks before the game, Staples said...

Author: By Stephen E. Sachs, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Ticket Sales for Harvard-Yale Game Off to Sluggish Start | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

After years of spending too much money chasing too little talent, the owners of the 29 NBA franchises now want protection from themselves. After canceling the first two weeks of the basketball season, they're insisting no play will begin until players and owners agree on a new contract containing a salary cap that limits how much a team can spend on players. That's going over like a lead jump shot with the players union, which wants to let teams spend more on players if they pay a "luxury tax" for the privilege to the poorer teams...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Tied Up on the Court | 10/14/1998 | See Source »

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